Philip Lorca Di Corcia was born in 1953, in Hatford, Connecticut. He studied with Jan Groover who taught him a new approach to photography that included not only the recording of reality, but inventing another way for expressing his point of view.
At the beginning Lorca Di corcia portrayed his family and his friends. He has never been a prolific photographer, he takes about a dozen shots a year.
After graduating at Yale, in New York, in the 80s he worked for travel and fashion magazines. Di Corcia learned from those commissions to represent reality like fiction, in a more fascinating way than the truth. When the N.E.A. awarded a Grant to Lorca Di Corcia in 1989 to recognize his works, there was full debate on Mapplethorpe\\\'s explicit photographs. Di Corcia, as others photographers too, was forced to limit his sharpness not to interrupt the fund he received.


Большинство его работ выглядят как документальные, на самом же деле это постановочные фотографии, зачастую с тщательно продуманным светом. Ди Корсиа получил множество наград, в том числе грант от Фонда Гуггенхайма в 1987 году. Его работы выставлялись в музеях и галереях разных стран. В период между 1996-м и 1998 годами Ди Корсиа фотографировал уличную жизнь в восьми крупных городах Америки, Европы и Азии. Его фотографии отражают двойственность существования человека в мегаполисе: с одной стороны, изолированность отдельных личностей друг от друга, с другой — растворение индивидуальности в человеческой массе, в толпе. 17.07.2008